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Colorado Springs has top percentage of workforce affected by shutdown

By The Gazette

Posted:
10/03/2013 12:01:00 AM MDT

Updated:
10/03/2013 08:21:20 AM MDT

Maj. Ryan Burke on Tuesday scans the nearly empty shelves in the meat section at the Fort Carson commissary in Colorado Springs. The commissary was busier than normal on news that it would close until further notice because of the government shutdown. (Mark Reis, The Gazette)

COLORADO SPRINGS — Guess which city among the nation's top 100 metro areas is, by percentage, the most dependent on its federal workforce?

According to The Washington Post, military installations such as Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base help make Colorado Springs No. 1. Here are the rankings:

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